Normative data of nerve conduction studies in the upper limb in Kuwait: Are they different from the Western data?

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 203-208

  Shehab, Dia K ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Action potential; Electromyography; Median nerve; Neural conduction; Radial nerve; Ulnar nerve

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; RADIAL NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0031752351     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000026043     Document Type: Article

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